A. Using key choices, correctly identify the major tissue types described.

Enter the
appropriate letter or tissue type term in the answer blanks.
Key Choices
A. Connective B. Epithelium C. Muscle D. Nervous

1. Forms mucous, serous, and epidermal membranes

2. Allows for organ movements within the body
3. Transmits electrochemical impulses
4. Supports body organs
5. Cells of this tissue may absorb and/or secrete substances
6. Basis of the major controlling system of the body
7. The cells of this tissue shorten to exert force
8. Forms hormones
9. Packages and protects body organs
10. Characterized by having large amounts of nonliving matrix

B. Using key choices, identify the following specific type(s) of epithelial tissue.
Enter the appropriate letter or classification term in the answer blanks.
Key Choices
A. Pseudostratified columnar D. Simple squamos
B. Simple columnar E. Stratified squamos
C. Simple cuboidal F. Transitional

1. Lines the esophagus and forms the skin epidermis

2. Forms the lining of the stomach and small intestine
3. Best suited for areas subjected to friction
4. Lines much of the respiratory tract
5. Propels substances across its surface
6. Found in the bladder lining; peculiar cells that slide over one another
7. Forms thin serous membranes; a single layer of flattened cells

C. The three types of muscle tissue exhibit certain similarities and differences.
Check the appropriate spaces in the following table to indicate which muscle types
exhibit each characteristic.

Characteristic Skeletal Cardiac Smooth

1. Voluntarily controlled
2. Involuntarily controlled
3. Banded appearance
4. Single nucleus in each cell
5. Multinucleate
6. Found attached to bones
7. Allows you to direct your eyeballs
8. Found in the walls of stomach, uterus, and
arteries
9. Contains spindle-shaped cells
10. Contains cylindrical cells with branching ends
11. Contains long, nonbranching cylindrical cells
12. Displays intercalated disks
13. Concerned with locomotion of the body as a
whole
14. Changes the internal volume of an organ as it
contracts
15. Tissue of the circulatory pump

D. Identify the following images.